Mommying While Muslim
Mommying While Muslim is a one of a kind podcast where American Muslim moms share their experiences to raise second generation kids. Having experienced both pre and post 9/11 America, they're acutely aware of the unique challenges their families face on top of the regular messes that all moms share. Mommying While Muslim is a space to take back their stories, and tell those no one will air on the news or portray fully or fairly in the media. Host Uzma Jafri is mom first, careerwoman second, and global citizen at heart. She meets taboo topics head on because she wasn't allowed to do it growing up, not at home or at school and work. Her aim is to better her immediate household, community, and her momsisterhood the world over by telling the truths sometimes people don't want to face or to hear. Not everyone has these privileges, and she is eager to learn as well as share her own experiences. Always looking to give back, MWM finds women and families who need a mic because no one needs a voice; they just need an opportunity to speak. Besides tough social issues, MWM tackles political ones because when laws affect kids, we're coming for them as well as the ones who make them! There's no lane that doesn't get taken here. Along the way, MWM recruits momallies for Muslim Americans who have been inordinately targeted for the last 20 years. True moms know that ALL our children deserve to be safe, loved, and happy, and we bust every yellow brick on the Islamaphobic road to make sure they all are. If you like good trouble, this one's for you!
Mommying While Muslim
Islamic Perspectives on Sexual Intimacy
Zaiba & Uzma learn how prophetic sexual tradition is really female-centric. Saba explains the effects of Eurocentric and colonial influences on Islamic sexual beliefs and practices. Normalizing sex again, and normalizing our need to be fulfilled, especially in this aspect of our God-given nature, is our right and we need to learn to exercise. We also need to teach that to our kids, who are often wondering about orgasm, masturbation, and other sexual practices we were taught as “deviant,” but it turns out, we were taught wrong.
Come breathe a sigh of relief with us today, and then later when you practice what you’ve learned!
Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA
- Loving Muslim Marriage video series from Muslim Matters: https://www.acog.org/Patients/FAQs/Your-Sexual-Health
- Pay special attention to episodes 2, 3, and 5
- There’s a 21-part series! Look out for all of them and watch!
- Sex Matters: Love, Marriage, and the Sunnah by www.muslimmatters.org
- “Hysteria” the movie is available on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.com/Hysteria-Hugh-Dancy/dp/B009CPGQHA
- Saba’a novel for young adults An Acquaintance: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/an-acquaintance-saba-syed/1126967439
- Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
- Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
- FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
- IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
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